This program centers primarily on the geochemical and isotopic analysis of animal “hard parts” as archives of environmental information. Projects focus on marine and terrestrial organisms that were collected alive to fossils that are millions of year old.
- Krause R.A. Jr., Barbour-Wood S., Kowalewski M., Kaufman D.S., Romanek C.S., Simões M and Wehmiller J.F. 2010 Comparative time averaging: Age mixing among sympatric bivalves and brachiopods from a modern tropical shelf.Paleobiology 36, 428-452.
- Yanes* Y., Romanek C.S., Delgado A., Brant H.A., Noakes J.E., Alonso M.R. and Ibáñez M. 2009 Oxygen and carbon stable isotopes of modern land snail shells as environmental indicators along altitude from a low-latitude oceanic island.Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 73, 4077-4099.
- Carroll* M. and Romanek C.S. 2008 Shell layer variation in trace element concentration for the bivalve, Elliptio complanata.Geo-Marine Letters 28, 369-381.
- Carroll M., Romanek C.S. and Paddock L. 2006. The relationship between the hydrogen and oxygen isotopes of freshwater bivalve shells and their home streams. Chemical Geology 234, 211-222.
- Andrus C.T.F., Crowe D.E., Sandweiss Z.H., Reitz E.J., andRomanek C.S. 2003. Response to Comment on "Otolith δ18 O Record of Mid-Holocene Sea Surface Temperatures in Peru".Science 299, 203b.
- Andrus C.F.T., Crowe D.E. and Romanek C.S. 2002. Oxygen isotope record of the 1997-1998 El Niño in Peruvian sea catfish (Galeichthys peruvianus) otoliths. Paleoceanography 17, doi:10.1029/2001PA000652
- Andrus C.F.T., Crowe D.E., Sandweiss D.H., Reitz, E.J. andRomanek C.S. 2002. Otolith δ18O record of ENSO history in mid-Holocene Peru. Science 295, 1508-1511.
- Romanek, C.S. and Grossman, E.L. 1989. Stable isotope profiles of Tridacna maxima as environmental indicators.Palaios 4, 403-414.
- Romanek, C.S., Jones, D.S., Williams, D.F., Krantz, D.E. and Radtke, R. 1987. Stable isotopic investigation of physiological and environmental changes recorded in shell carbonate from the giant clam Tridacna maxima. Marine Biology 94, 385-393.
- Jones, D.S., Williams, D.F. and Romanek, C.S. 1986. Life history of symbiont-bearing giant clams from stable isotopes.Science 231, 46-48.